in fact the phrase johnny appleseed and the pot will get to something like 10,000 hits on google. and so this constant reinvention continues into our own time and are distinctly modern interest in scaling back going local and preserving and conserving this wonderful creation we had been handed. two centuries before there was a simplicity movement john chapman had a creative lifestyle that was simplicity itself, level of consumption that would drive the national economy back to a bartering system widely practiced. .. >> of names in the world basis from the divine origin and clothes were such formed to exist there to perfect their use to correspond with higher things. however it came to be there is the the more than a caustic accident and would never label comes to the challenge, a secular greed and planetary survival, it does need someone to show us how to do a better path between the president in future and real and imagined ready to lead the way. >> thank you all very, very much for coming. if you cease to do so please zhao to throw something out -- at me. but i just discovered t

as he always was in love, johnny appleseed is late after even now, the line between present and future, man and myth, the real and imagined ready to lead the way. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> and now on booktv for richard brookhiser recounts the life of the fourth american president james madison. he examines madison's influence in the framing of the u.s. constitution, collaboration on the federalist papers, development of the republican party, and his command of troops during the war of 1812. it's a little as than an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm the manager here at the national archives experience. i'd like to welcome you all and are good friends at c-span to the special constitution day program. today the national archives sobering the 224th birthday of the united states constitution with an author talk on james madison who was father of the constitution. we are honored today to have as our special guest speaker the preeminent historian and senior editor for "national review," richard brookhiser. mr. brookhiser has been writing about pol

the myth an american story because they think and i hope i adequately show that the myth of johnny appleseed keeps getting reinvented generation by generation. in the late 1800's and early 1900's he was a symbol of the american innocence, the time before civil war had ravaged the land, before native americans had driven them into dismal reservation and whispered expansions with the way the suppose even the country once had been. two decades later after the temperance union had laid siege to hard cider johnny reemerged as spokesman for the helpful property. in the mid-1900's as we have seen the disney studio turned johnny into a sermon on brotherly love and selflessness. advertisements in 1950s and the 1960s praises financial